Denver beat Minnesota Wednesday to elimate the Mavs from playoff contention.
Who would have thought that it would not be until 4 days left in the season
that the Mavs would be eliminated?  [Okay, before the season started, not 
those of you who went over-board after the Mavs' nice start in November.]

As such and Sacramento's win the other day, the Mavs will have the 10th
best record of the non-playoff teams (Boston actually will have a worse
record in getting the 8th playoff spot in the east.).  Unless they get
lucky (or unlucky and Sacramento gets the 1, 2, or 3) in the lottery,
that converts to the 12th pick of the draft.  Here are the lottery odds
for the lottery (ie, the team with the worst record has a 25% chance of 
getting the #1 pick):
Team   #1     #2     #3   Total
  1  25.0  21.72  18.12   64.84
  2  20.3  19.23  17.57   57.1
  3  16.2  16.34  16.2    48.74
  4  12.6  13.33  14.09   40.02
  5   9.4  10.32  11.46   31.18
  6   6.6   7.47   8.61   22.68
  7   4.4   5.09   6.02   15.51
  8   2.7   3.17   3.83    9.7
  9   1.5   1.78   2.18    5.46
 10   0.8   0.96   1.18    2.94
 11   0.5   0.6    0.74    1.84

Attendance numbers:  The Mavs sold-out 27 games at Reunion this season.
They only had 7 sell-outs over the past 2 seasons.  They averaged 16,547
(94.5% capacity) at Reunion which is a 28.9% increase over last year's
12,839 average.  For the road, the Mavs were 8th in the league averaging
16,924.  Orlando was 1st with 18,649.  

Jim Jackson will be the guest studio analyst for TNT April 27-29.  [Guess
which playoff games I'll be watching then.]  Jason Kidd: "I told Jimmy
what he should do is talk about us, what the Mavericks would do in this 
situation, what we would do in that situation.  That way, no one will
forget about us."

The NBA tried to get Jason Kidd an invitation to appear on the Tonight 
Show for next Friday.  Jay Leno's staff requested highlights and interview
tapes of Jason before they would make a decision.  They chose Charles
Barkley instead.  They said that if Jason is selected as Rookie of the Year,
they would consider having him as a guess.  Here's hoping he turns them down.

The Mavs finished with a record of 36-46 (43.9%).
Here are the team records set this season
386 3-pointers made (old: 283 in 92-93)
1200 3-pointers attempted (old: 837 in 92-93)
1514 offensive rebounds (old: 1341 in 87-88)
3947 rebounds (old: 3836 in 87-88)
32 offensive rebounds game, vs Denver (old: 30 at Phi in 1983)
25 point comeback, Dallas 124, Denver 123 November 26 (old: 19 twice)
156 points in a game, vs Houston (old: 149 vs Denver in 1983)
147 points in a game by opponent, vs Houston (old: 144 3 times)
303 combined points in a game, vs Houston (old: 288 vs Denver in 1983)
109 points in a half, vs Houston (old: 87 vs Golden State in 1985)
128 field goals attempted in a game, vs Houston (old: 114 several times)
15 3-pointers in a game in a game, vs Houston (old: 11 twice, both this season)
31 3-pointers attempted in a game, vs Houston (old: 25 twice)
113 3-pointers, individual, Jamal Mashburn (old: 101 Derek Harper in 92-93)
344 3-pointers attempted, individual, Mashburn (old: 299 Mashburn in 93-94)
148 blocked shots, individual, Lorenzo Williams (old: 144 Kurt Nimphius in 
  83-84)
607 assists, rookie, Jason Kidd (old: 266 Mashburn in 93-94)
151 steals, rookie, Kidd (old: 95 Harper in 83-84)
78 starts, rookie, Kidd (old: 73 Mashburn in 93-94)
161 consecutive starts, Jim Jackson (old: 149 Brad Davis from Feb '81 - Jan
  '83)
50 points, game, Jamal Mashburn at Chicago and Jim Jackson at Denver (old:
  49 Mark Aguirre in 1985)
8 3-pointers in a game, Jason Kidd (old: 7 twice)
46 combined points, one overtime, at Houston


patricia